Katharina Münchberg

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Katharina Münchberg (* 1969 ) is a German literary scholar of Romance languages with a focus on French and Italian literature .

Life

After studying in Tübingen, Freiburg, Paris and Verona, she completed her dissertation at the University of Tübingen in 1999 , where she also completed her habilitation in 2003 with a thesis on Dante's Commedia . After substitute professorships at the Ruhr University Bochum and the Free University of Berlin, she was appointed to the W3 professorship for Romance literature at the University of Trier in 2007 .

Research priorities

Her research focuses on aesthetic theory, Romanesque literatures of the Middle Ages and modern times, and the poetics of friendship. In her scientific publications she particularly follows the relationship between literary work and philosophical discourse.

Fonts

Monographs

  • René Char. Aesthetics of Difference , Heidelberg 2000.
  • Dante. The possibility of art , Heidelberg 2005.

Important individual publications

  • Historicity of literature and temporality of aesthetic experience , in: Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft 49/1 (2004), 29–54.
  • The potentiality of the work of art , in: Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft 51/2 (2006), 165–181.
  • The flying arrow. Paradigms on a poetics of movement in French modernism , in: Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft 55/1 (2010), 69–89.
  • Moralistic discourse and aesthetic work with Paul Valéry , in: Moralistics. Explorations and Perspectives , ed. by Rudolf Behrens, Maria Moog-Grünewald , Romanistic Colloquium XII, Munich (Fink) 2010, 375–393.

Awards and grants

  • 1996–1998 scholarship from the Tübingen Graduate School Pragmatization / De-pragmatization - literature as a field of tension between heteronomous and autonomous determinations
  • 1999 Elise Richter Prize from the German Association of Romanists for her dissertation
  • 2006–2007 Heisenberg grant from the DFG

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personal data
SURNAME Münchberg, Katharina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and Romance philologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1969